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Jim Yardley
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April 15, 2018
Aren't Democrats Lucky? (For the Time Being, Anyway)Robert Mueller is riding the Democrats' lucky star for now. It won't last forever.
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June 14, 2017
Thank you, Bernie!Bernie Sanders is busy setting up a new third party and aligning himself with rabid left-wing extremists. He's doing Republicans a favor.
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January 19, 2017
Trump’s inaugural speech and the empty chair DemocratsA little political jiu-jitsu for Friday.
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November 13, 2016
Anti-Trump Riots: I’ve Seen It Before – Twice!Which is why I know exactly how to handle them.
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October 19, 2016
How a liberal defines words (and ignores the dictionary)The person defining the word is the master – that is, the master of the conversation, the argument, the issue.
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October 14, 2016
Think it can't be worse? Really?Believing that this election is the worst it could be is wishful thinking at its most extreme.
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January 16, 2015
Obama can ignore damn near anythingWhat do Paris and the Tea Party have in common?
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November 25, 2014
Obama's Claim of KindnessObama apparently feels that he should be admired and supported for this exhibition of his kindness, humanity and caring for these unfortunate illegal aliens.
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November 21, 2014
Just Why are Illegal Aliens not Criminal?Listening to members of the Obama administration trying to explain President Obama’s plan for amnesty for illegal aliens offers evidence that they still think like very young children.
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August 11, 2014
Obama Is Responsible for the Deaths in IraqSevere warning: this article contains extremely graphic and disturbing images. They tell the story, but they are not for children or those who are upset easily by violence.
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July 22, 2014
Diversity for Thee, but Not for MeThe Progressive mantra of “diversity über alles” is one of the most honored shibboleths of the left. But what does it really mean?
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June 20, 2014
I Am Offended by Your Compliment!Apparently the Redskin Five are offended by being told that they represent something admirable.
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June 5, 2014
<em>Ceteris Paribus</em> in Government AssumptionsThis useful little Latin phrase explains a lot about why liberals get so much wrong.
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June 2, 2014
Another Source for the Problems at the VAThis administration itself is a cause of the VA system being inundated with new patients.
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May 23, 2014
Obama Heard It Through the GrapevineWhen the CEO of any organization is forced to deal with what would be, at a bare minimum, a public relations catastrophe because he hadn’t heard about the rot within his own organization, you might think that someone would lose his/her job
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May 10, 2014
A Republican's Nightmare? Really?Hillary is "inevitable?" Remember, in 2008 every political pundit thought Hillary’s nomination was inevitable, too.
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April 22, 2014
I Will Not 'Go Gentle into That Good Night'How will we, individually and collectively, respond to the approach of that "good night" marking the end of a great nation?
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April 5, 2014
Why Do 'Progressives' Love Moving Backward?The EPA experiments have historical precedents.
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March 21, 2014
Telling You Not to Use the Word 'Bossy' is, well, Kind of Bossy. Isnâ\冲 it?Wanted: A replacement word that women will accept.
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March 13, 2014
Kerry's Right -- it's not the Nineteenth CenturyStopped clocks and secretaries of state.
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March 7, 2014
Whatever is not Required is ProhibitedRuling by diktat is accepted practice in our school system.
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March 3, 2014
Breaking: Investors Still Hate ObamaCareWhen investors understand that whatever they create is subject to the whims of a dictator who views everything through the lens of politics, they tend to keep their money in their wallets and walk away.
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January 9, 2014
Does the Constitution Force Bakers to Bake?Homosexuals demanding a wedding cake is not so much a 1st Amendment issue as it is a 13th Amendment one.
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December 16, 2013
Is a 'White Christmas' the Next Target?Penguins in the chimney -- the left vs. Christmas, Part. 2
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November 28, 2013
Our Peek-a-Boo PresidentI know what our President was thankful for on the day before Thanksgiving.
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November 21, 2013
Fire the CEOsThe collapse of ObamaCare was well within the realm of possibility. Why didn't American insurance companies plan for it?
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November 11, 2013
Hillary for President? Really?It's time we had a woman president. Just not this one.
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November 6, 2013
A Different View of PaternalismWith paternalism the government thinks that you are not capable of making a rational evaluation of what is necessary for your own well-being.
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November 2, 2013
What Truly is Liberty?We can see, on a nearly daily basis, how the restrictive clauses are being ignored, subverted, sabotaged or otherwise corrupted, distorting the clear meaning of the Bill of Rights.
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September 28, 2013
So Life is Unfair, Is It?Our president is fond of the word unfair. He almost always uses the word to infer that somehow, someone has purposely made someone else's life a real trial for them.
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September 12, 2013
Our President from Another PlanetIf any president in our history has been more dependent on hoping that atrocities "fade from memory", it is this one.
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September 10, 2013
Our 'Federal Family'?Any time a government tries selling the idea that we're all one big family, its citizens should prepare for something utterly horrific in the offing.
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August 30, 2013
Obama wants us to trust him on SyriaA rumor is going around Washington that the President is "consulting" with Congress about what he plans to do about Syria
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August 24, 2013
Our President Plans to 'Rate' CollegesThis bright idea needs to be strangled in the crib.
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August 22, 2013
'Dance with the Girl Ya Brung'While the slaughter in Egypt has been happening, just what has the "leader of the free world", been doing? He's been playing golf while on vacation
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August 10, 2013
Is Obama 'Insuring' Softball Questions?Media cowards or media traitors. Which is more palatable?
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August 4, 2013
Whom Are They Kidding?Washington staffers threatening to flee to the private sector in the wake of ruinous ObamaCare? It is to laugh.
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July 26, 2013
Green bullets?It appears that the Obama administration is once more pandering to rabid environmentalists
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July 25, 2013
A Follow-Up File is NeededAlthough Obama disdains all things military, he does emulate one aspect of the armed forces to a fare-thee-well. He is the human embodiment of a "fire-and-forget" missile.
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July 17, 2013
A Living Document? Well, that Depends"Liiving document" essentially means that the Constitution can be interpreted to mean just about anything that the current administration wants it to mean.
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July 14, 2013
Well, If it Worked in Egypt...The Egyptian coup should serve as a wakeup call for many corrupt elites around the world -- perhaps even including ours.
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July 11, 2013
Enabling IncompetenceA large part of the country is involved in covering up the errors and inabilities of one man.
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July 6, 2013
The NSA: What Exactly Are We Paying For, Again?Intellectually insulting responses, complete incompetence, and a whole lot of money down the drain. What's the point?
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June 22, 2013
It's a Question of TrustThe media is downplaying everything the Obama administration is doing lately -- and also downplaying how the American people's trust in government has been destroyed.
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June 13, 2013
NSA's Real Targets?Never plan on what you expect your enemy to do, but rather plan based on what they are capable of doing.
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May 27, 2013
Protecting the Rich?Whom does the Republican Party protect -- and whom should it protect?
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May 25, 2013
Uncle Sam Wants You...Under His Thumb!It's scandal season in the Obama administration. Let's just summarize the more egregious behavior of our Beloved Leader and his Apostles.
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May 19, 2013
Two WordsLeon Panetta -- and by extension the Obama administration as a whole -- truly do not understand the psychology of the American military fraternity.
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April 27, 2013
Gosnell's Defense: Admission of Defeat, or the Start of an Appeal?Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for Dr. Kermit Gosnell, has shocked court watchers all over the nation by resting his case in defense of Gosnell without calling a single witness.
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April 26, 2013
The 'We're-Really-Not-Raising-Your-Taxes' Tax"Fairness" is a word that should be banned for use by government officials.
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April 21, 2013
And How Many Bullets Do You Need?Because the police needed two hundred the other day. To take out one man.
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April 14, 2013
Truth in Fables: Why Progressives Hate AesopBetter to read library regulations, say pushers of Common Core.
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April 11, 2013
The Obama Budget: A Plan or a Train Wreck?We've accumulated $16 trillion in debt over about two centuries. Now our president hopes to spend around 25% of that in a single year.
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March 19, 2013
Are We Helping in Egypt, or Paying Tribute?How will Egyptian President Morsi and the Islamists surrounding him view the quarter of a billion dollars the United States is "loaning" Egypt?
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March 2, 2013
Can Anyone be Only a 'Little Bit Pregnant?'Well, according to our liberal-progressive elites, you can in fact be only "a little less free."
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February 23, 2013
Choosing Senators: How to Rein in Federal SpendingIt's not a matter of whom we choose for the Senate. Rather, it's how we choose them.
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February 2, 2013
A Second Bill of Rights, or just another Bill of Goods?Roosevelt's (and now Obama's) lofty wish list reveals itself as pie-in-the-sky nonsense for anyone perceptive enough to actually read it.
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December 29, 2012
We Can't Wait Until 2016Presidential candidate slobbering among the media notwithstanding, there is much work for conservatives to do between now and 2014. That's right -- it's time to concentrate on the midterms.
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December 28, 2012
In Praise of Piers MorganAt last, the world has found an individual more despicable than the lovely and talented Keith Olbermann.
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December 11, 2012
The Smartest People in the Room?The denizens of Washington don't understand either America or Americans. Maybe they really aren't the smartest people in the room.
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December 2, 2012
To Survive, Republicans Must Embrace School VouchersRepublicans can finally do something to persuade blacks, Hispanics, and single mothers to abandon the Democratic Party plantation in significant numbers in the 2014 election.
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November 25, 2012
On Respecting Muslim CultureFor at least the past decade, and perhaps longer, the nations of the West have treated jihadists and radical Islamists with an inordinate level of respect so as not to "offend" them.
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November 18, 2012
Where Should We Go From Here?There are four areas that Republicans/Conservatives/Tea Party activists need to focus on: education reform, media control, crippling union political power, and ending the apparently eternal quest for the "perfect" candidate.
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November 14, 2012
A Letter to Both SantasI know it seems sort of bold of me to ask for something this large, but perhaps if you think of it not as a gift for me,but rather as a gift that would be shared with 330,000,000 of my friends, it might not seem as avaricious.
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November 9, 2012
Got Mandate?Two things argue persuasively that Obama was denied the possibility of having a mandate that he so desperately wants in order to justify his every action for the next four years.
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October 13, 2012
Is Politics Important?Every single part and every single facet of your life is impacted by politics. Politics cannot be ignored.
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October 12, 2012
Be Vewy, Vewy Quiet. We're Hunting in Benghazi.Sometimes silence can be just as much a sign as gunshots of bad things on the way.
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October 5, 2012
Judging Polls by the Company They KeepWhy do so few people bother to respond to pollsters? Could it have something to do with national trust in the media?
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September 28, 2012
Now Who's Interfering in Another Country's 'Internal Affairs?'President Morsi's speech before the U.N. calls for the rest of the world to conform to his idea of free speech.
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September 15, 2012
And You Wondered Where Your Taxes Went...The Chief Diversity Officer in the State Department warned his colleagues that a large number of common idioms, such as "hold down the fort" and "rule of thumb" described racist attitudes.
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September 9, 2012
So Obama Inherited a Mess, Did He? From Whom?There's enough blame to go around -- all the way around.
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August 22, 2012
'Forward.' The Perfect Campaign Slogan for Obama?Obama just loves the concept of FORWARD because it's a blank slate, an empty page that he can fill with fantasies.
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August 19, 2012
Useful WorkLately we've been hearing a lot of talk about how expensive a college education is. I'll tell you how to make the thing worthwhile.
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August 18, 2012
You Can Pick Only TwoThere's an old adage in business that goes "Price! Quality! Delivery! -- Pick Two." It's time our government learned that one.
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August 6, 2012
The Obama Syndrome?At what point does a disorder become a danger to the person suffering it, or worse, a danger to those around them?
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August 2, 2012
No Thanks, We'll Do It Our WayThe Founders created a mechanism that has prevented a second American Revolution for nearly 240 years. Time to revive it.
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July 29, 2012
Picking the Wrong OpponentWhat worse decision can a politician make than to choose a battle with the Catholic Church -- or any church, for that matter?
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July 28, 2012
Only Teachers, Firemen, and Cops?How many public employees in white-collar jobs provide us anything of value?
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July 27, 2012
Is Dick Durbin Stupid, Ignorant, or Just Lying to His Constituents?In light of his recent comments on internet sales taxes, it could be all three.
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July 15, 2012
Rights and ConsequencesObama feels that his vision for a transformed America is constrained by a musty, antiquated scrap of parchment that describes his job functions.
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July 7, 2012
What Shall It Be? Us versus Them? Or Them versus Us?Maybe it's time for the Republicans to really reframe the players in this season's electoral battle.
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July 4, 2012
Ever Wonder Why We Even Bothered?Never forget: the Constitution, as written, is a loud and strong declaration that We the People do not trust the government that we, ourselves, created.
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July 1, 2012
Have We Reached the New Tipping Point?The trigger is always something seemingly insignificant to the elites.
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June 15, 2012
Political FallaciesIt might be a good idea for all of us to immediately question the intellectual endowment and educational credentials of any politician who speaks about empowering us.
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June 13, 2012
Who's Flying the New Syrian Choppers?Are Syrians going to pilot these new helicopters? Training a pilot is an extremely time consuming effort. In fact it is arguably easier to build a fighter aircraft or helicopter than it is to train the pilot
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June 10, 2012
American Exceptionalism: The Things Americans Don't Do WellThese make us pretty exceptional, too.
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June 8, 2012
Do Republicans Really Have Only One Reason to Criticize the President?As the campaign grinds on over the next five months, Team Obama, unable to explain away policy failures, will increasingly rely on the one-word rebuttal to all criticism of the Chosen One.
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June 4, 2012
I Am Barack Obama's Worst NightmareSleep well, Mr. President. You'll see me in your dreams.
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May 18, 2012
Why the Obama Campaign Is Blowing the ElectionThe great puzzle of President Obama's re-election campaign is why previously successful political pros are creating so many ineffective initiatives that blow up in their faces like exploding cigars.
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May 17, 2012
Civil Service Through the Looking GlassInstead of the winners of elections picking who will be employed by the government, the government employees band together to pick the politicians who will be elected.
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May 12, 2012
A Speech I Would Like to Hear from a Politician...Any Politician!Something that you may never have heard before coming out of the mouth of a politician. Well, let me clarify that. You've probably never heard it come out of the mouth of a sober politician.
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April 28, 2012
Sixty-three is a Lonely Number63 GOP members of Congress sign a letter to the IRS protesting harrassment of tea parties. Only 63? Out of 242?
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April 21, 2012
A Very Simple Job DescriptionPresident Obama complains constantly that his job is made harder because of the negative slant of the Constitution. That's quite a claim when the Constitution devotes only 322 words to the president's job.
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April 18, 2012
Can the President Lower Gas Prices?President Obama has claimed that there is no "silver bullet" to reduce gasoline prices. I beg to differ.
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April 3, 2012
America Flexing Its MusclesThanks to the current debate in the Supreme Court over Obamacare, ordinary citizens, all over the nation, are beginning to feel comfortable discussing the Constitution of the United States
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April 1, 2012
Have a Little Faith, Just Trust Me!Environmental extremists on the left treat their belief system as a religion, something that has not been proven and might not even be capable of proof. That's the definition of a religion, isn't it?
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March 17, 2012
National Energy Policy? Got One Handy?I hate to report this, but there has never been a coherent energy policy at any time in the history of the country.
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March 8, 2012
Compensating for Coattails in 2012Even though it is has been traditional for presidential candidates to select their running mate, Republicans have already started looking at various potential vice-presidential candidates who would help shore up their ticket in November.
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March 3, 2012
Can a Balanced Budget Be Achieved without a Plan?How are you going to get revenues and expenditures to come close to the same amount?
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February 18, 2012
TANSTAAFLNo, TANSTAAFL isn't a new type of Swedish meatball. Nor is it the name of a solar-powered sauna.
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February 17, 2012
Unions and Government: A Suicide Pact for EveryoneThe relationship between the U.S. Department of Labor and the NLRB flies in the face of economic reality, although it does fit nicely with Obama's re-election strategy.
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February 13, 2012
Can We Rely on the Executive Branch for Unsullied Data?What good are unemployment statistics if the footnotes run ten times as long as the statistics themselves?
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February 11, 2012
Has the Constitution Lost Its Sex Appeal?From the New York Times to President Obama, people seem to think that our Constitution is passé.
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February 9, 2012
First Global Warming - Now Global Sweetening!From the same sort of academic busybodies who gave us the ever-popular global warming panic comes a new prediction of catastrophe.
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January 31, 2012
Obama's Assault on Religious ConscienceTime for the Catholic Church to play hardball?
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January 28, 2012
And Just How Do You Define 'Fair'?"Fair" is one of those warm, fuzzy words that allows the listener to define it to his own personal taste -- and the definition changes from one specific case to another.
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January 27, 2012
Once Again, Our Government Finds Itself CluelessFurther proof that the government has absolutely no clue how businesses operate or how business owners think.
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January 22, 2012
Look at Me Pretending to Care, Mr. PresidentIn speech after speech, at fund-raiser after fund-raiser, and in countless radio, TV and print media interviews, Barack Obama has whined and complained about how tough his job is.
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January 21, 2012
How Can Obama and the Democrats Deflect Blame? Let Me Count the Ways.How many ways can Obama and the Democrats deflect blame away from their own ineptitude, utter incompetence and blatant corruption and cronyism?
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January 16, 2012
Obama and the Constitution: How Inconvenient!So we have a President, the leader of the most powerful nation on earth, head of the strongest military the world has ever seen, who apparently has the strength of character of a five-year old boy.
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January 14, 2012
Team Obama and the VotersThis year, on November 6, will we be voting for a chief executive, or will we, in fact, be voting for an entire administration?
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January 7, 2012
The Price of Obama's Peace Dividend Is an Increased Risk of WarCompetent foreign policy is like making the first move in a game of chess. Unless you are thinking ten moves ahead, you might just as well not play the game.
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January 5, 2012
Will Obama Go to War?As we enter 2012, the question of whether our president is planning to go to war might seem far-fetched, but some troubling news developments indicate otherwise.
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November 8, 2011
What Can Herman Cain Do, What Must He Do, What Should He Do?The options are limited.
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October 20, 2011
Mr. President, Do You Recall What Your Job Is?Listening to President Obama speak at event after event, the question that continues to come to mind is this: does this guy understand what his job actually is?
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October 6, 2011
School District Shenanigans: Seeking a Better Education Means Jail Time for ParentsParents across the country are being arrested for trying to get their kids into better schools -- but it's even worse than it first appears.
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September 19, 2011
School Vouchers, as Seen by the OppositionSchool vouchers should appeal to both liberals and conservatives...but they don't.
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June 8, 2011
GOP Contenders: Please Put Your Egos On HoldIt is critical that contenders for the Republican nomination not lose sight of one simple fact.
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May 15, 2011
The Ultimate OxymoronThe Indiana Supreme Court decided that there is absolutely no reason for a private citizen to prevent a police officer from invading said citizen's home.
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April 30, 2011
Chris Christie has an Obligation to RunGovernor, it is up to you. Are you willing to make the sacrifice that the country is asking from you?
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April 18, 2011
Hope and Change? Yes, But Not in that OrderObama's political handlers created an absolutely marvelous slogan. Sadly, it was also first rate political nonsense. But, to be fair, they created something, purely by accident, that was almost right.
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April 16, 2011
Hope and Change? Yes, But Not in that OrderNone of the President's ideas worked before, so can we have confidence that they will work now?
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April 1, 2011
It Only Took Two YearsDemocrat worthies have admitted that the Tea Parties are, in fact, a political force. But their motives are not an interest in the truth.
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March 28, 2011
Is That a Cry for Democracy in the Middle East?The authoritative voices, who describe the not-exactly-a-war in Libya as a "kinetic military action," tell us that the people of the Middle East have had enough of dictatorial regimes.
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March 23, 2011
President Sorta, Kinda, MaybeListening to our President, we now know that, in the issue of Libya, we are sorta, kinda, maybe going to get rid of Gaddafi. Or not.
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March 17, 2011
A Teachable Moment for Barack ObamaThe crisis in Libya offers a truly teachable moment for our 44th president.
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February 27, 2011
The Smartest Guy in the Room has No Sense of HistoryStop the slaughter - even if we have to intervene.
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February 20, 2011
The Battle of WisconsinThe evolving legislative crisis in Wisconsin has illuminated the political symbiosis of the Democrat Party and Big Labor.
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February 13, 2011
The Right Way to 'Spread the Wealth Around'The phrase "spread the wealth around" simultaneously reveals Obama's command and control view of the role of government and his startling naïveté regarding how basic economics actually works.
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February 10, 2011
Why Should Republicans Be Embarrassed about Chris Lee's resignation?Lee resigned immediately, unlike Democrats with problems who hang on to their seats.
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January 28, 2011
Honey, Do You Mind Leftovers Tonight?Why the GOP nominee for president should not be too familiar to voters
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January 15, 2011
And Now for Something Completely Different...Is Monty Python writing scripts for the administration, Congress, and the media?
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January 15, 2011
The left and fablesNever argue with Aesop. He always seems to have the last laugh.
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December 1, 2010
Change Tea Party Goals?In the past week, there has been a call for the Tea Parties to introduce social issues into their "platform."
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November 13, 2010
Selective DemocracySelective democracy is the result of an overabundance of a feeling of entitlement, frequently among the losing candidates.
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October 9, 2010
What Is Congress Establishing?The National Science Foundation has awarded a $700,000 grant to a New York City theater company to finance the production of a play about climate change. A musical.
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September 21, 2010
Bloomberg believes tea party a 'fad'Apparently Hizzoner also sees similarities between his home turf of Wall Street investment houses and the casinos of Las Vegas.
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September 20, 2010
Are social cons really being left behind by the tea party?By treating the concerns of the Tea Parties as being of less import than their own agenda, they excluded themselves, not the other way around.
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September 8, 2010
We Don't Like Either of YouThe balance of power in Washington is an endless ebb and flow of disgust for both parties, since each seems to react to the delusion that accompanies election to office.
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August 28, 2010
Prime the Pump, or Fill the Tank?As the electoral silly season heats up, it's always interesting to listen to Liberals/Progressives/Democrats argue with their Republican opponents about how to fix the limping economy.
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August 18, 2010
This election season, let's get candidates to promise what they won't doA more relevant measure of a candidate's fitness for office.
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July 22, 2010
The Sherrod matter a boon for ObamaNo one talking about the president's failed policies or radical agenda.
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July 10, 2010
Just trying to be a good neighborManufacturers of sugar. salt, chips, soda and other targeted products should simply stop selling them to localities where they are targeted for disapprobation and increased taxes.
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June 25, 2010
Democrat 'Suicide Bombers'The truly dangerous potential suicide is the one who doesn't plan to go alone.
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May 22, 2010
In God We Trust... In Government? Not So MuchAccording to the Pew Research Center, nearly 80% of Americans don't trust their own government.
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May 21, 2010
Deporting Arizona's IllegalsU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will not necessarily process illegal immigrants referred to them by Arizona authorities. This sets up a no-win situation for Obama.
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May 13, 2010
How about a lottery to decide the first primary state?Iowa and New Hampshire should not be able to have so much influence on who gets elected president.
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April 30, 2010
Sticks and stonesTea partiers can't disprove a negative such as the smear that are "racists."
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February 26, 2010
We Are Being Governed by the Elite? Oh, Really?Who exactly are these supposed betters that are running things for us?
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February 23, 2010
Debunking climate change doesn't mean the climate isn't changingThe climate has been changing for billions of years.
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February 8, 2010
Did You Feel the Earth Move?The earth is shifting under our feet, and the political class, both in elected officialdom and in the unelected punditocracy, appears to be oblivious.
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February 5, 2010
Obama channeling P.T. BarnumHe must take us for suckers if he expects us to believe that the Christmas bomber is singing like a canary after being read his miranda rights.
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January 4, 2010
Whom Are We Hiring?In the real world, there are a lot of things that have to happen between seeing a "Help Wanted" ad and actually getting a paycheck.
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November 22, 2009
Praising Saul Alinsky and Cloward-PivenTake a page from "Rules for Radicals" and fill the jails with nationalized health care protestors.